Acute pancreatitis after liver transplantation: incidence and contributing factors.

In order to assess the incidence and possible predisposing and contributing factors in the development of acute pancreatitis after liver transplantation, we reviewed the medical records of all 1832 adult patients who underwent 2161 orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTx) procedures in our center between January 1987 and September 1992. Of these patients, 55 (3% incidence) developed clinical pancreatitis and 247 (13.4% incidence) developed hyperamylasemia (biochemical pancratitis).

Hepatic arterial variations and liver-related diseases of 100 consecutive donors.

We prospectively studied anatomical variations and diseases of the liver in 100 consecutive donor operations during a period of 1 year. The "normal" arterial anatomy with a single hepatic artery (HA) from the celiac trunk was seen in 76% of all cases. Seven of twelve different major variations of the HA may be considered as "rare", one of which cannot be found in the earlier literature.